![]() ![]() Read the legislative texts which established le Calendrier Républicain. The French Republican calendar (also known as the Revolutionary calendar) was introduced during the French Revolution to replace the Gregorian calendar and. The calendar was one of the great reforms undertaken by the national Convention, like the Metric system. The Eiffel Tower shown at right was built in commemoration of the French Revolution, and was built for the Paris World’s Fair in 1889. The poets contributed the name of the days, choosing the names of plants, domestic animals and tools the months rhyme three by three, according to the "sonority" of the seasons. The mathematicians contributed equal month division, and a decimal measures of time. The calendar was adopted more than one year after the advent of the First Republic (there was no year 1), after a long debate involving the mathematicians Romme and Monge, the poets Chénier and Fabre d’ Eglantine and the painter David. ![]() The French also established a new clock, in which the day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds - exactly 100,000 seconds per day. It was used again briefly during under the Paris Commune in 1871. The French Revolutionary Calendar (or Republican Calendar) was officially adopted in France on Octoand abolished on 1 January 1806 by Emperor Napoleon I. ![]()
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